SERVICE TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS

• Service Subjects
• General Policy and Language Philosophy

Service subjects

The Department offers a very wide variety of language-related subjects.

• Business Communication courses in English, Afrikaans, Northern Sotho and Tswana for programmes in Journalism, Public Relations, various Engineering departments, Food & Beverage, Office Administration and Technology, Tourism Management, Teacher Training, Drama, Dance, Music, various Management programmes, Accountancy, Marketing, Financial Information Systems, and Internal Auditing.

• Third language courses in Afrikaans, French, German, Spanish, Zulu, Northern Sotho, Tswana and Sign Language for Engineering, Journalism, Public Relations, Office Administration & Technology, and Tourism Management. These courses are also available to any other University student who wishes to enrol for non-degree purposes.

• Civilization Studies are offered to Journalism students.

General Policy and Language Philosophy

The Department of Applied Languages renders training in language communication to departments in which students are trained in other career fields, but where the curricula also contain language components. Such departments may then select career-focused content for their specific courses.

Advanced language and communication techniques are offered in the first language of the student ("A-language") while basic language skills are emphasized in the second language ("B-language"), where applicable. If only one language may be taken, the course is offered at the first-language level to comply with degree requirements.

If a student's preferred first language (not necessarily the mother tongue) is not offered or his/her academic standard and proficiency in the language are questionable, or that language lacks the necessary terminology, the student will be assessed to determine in which of his/her languages he/she is most proficient. In such a case the student is advised to take the course in the best of his/her languages on offer at the time.

Language, communication and managerial skills, as well as sociological, intercultural, psychological and philosophical aspects, are fully integrated in the presentation of language material.

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